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Went to the AVA Expo here in Sandton convention centre. Compared to last year I've been pleasantly surprised at the increase in exhibitors, especially in the specialist/non-mainstream audio. Over and above the usual large Sony, LG, Canon, Nikon stalls, there was a huge musical instrument section. On the audio side, there were beautiful sets of Magnaplanars playing, the larger set on glorious Plinius kit. Nice new Audiolab as well. They picked up a little issue later in the afternoon, but sure that's been fixed with a new fuse. Onkyo and Polk abound, as were Yamaha. AVCables had a static display of Spendor and Furutech, with an Emmlabs CDP on special. Two home automation stalls, fully functional with friendly (suppose it was day one) salespeople. Denon had a static display, as did the B&W/Marantz/Classe importers - who although being static, did have a nice display of Mark L, Kimber, Classe and the big 800s and 802s amongst others, together with a HUUUUUUUUUGE Panasonic. Pretty much the whole Marantz line-up featured as well. Tucked away was a (the name slipped me now) stall displaying the beautiful Red wine audio, Amphion and Allmare kit. Pity that with all the external noise you could not have a real listen. There were a few others, new technologies speakers I think they called it, as were Quad/Audiosure with a small rather disappointing stand. Playing Quad CDP through 909 to 22L2s.
As for show specials, suppose if you chatted more you could find out, although the Magnaplanar/Plinius stand had a huge pricelist against the wall - and was the stand I kept on going back to.
Oh, and Earthquake was there. WTF.
Went to the AVA Expo here in Sandton convention centre. Compared to last year I've been pleasantly surprised at the increase in exhibitors, especially in the specialist/non-mainstream audio. Over and above the usual large Sony, LG, Canon, Nikon stalls, there was a huge musical instrument section. On the audio side, there were beautiful sets of Magnaplanars playing, the larger set on glorious Plinius kit. Nice new Audiolab as well. They picked up a little issue later in the afternoon, but sure that's been fixed with a new fuse. Onkyo and Polk abound, as were Yamaha. AVCables had a static display of Spendor and Furutech, with an Emmlabs CDP on special. Two home automation stalls, fully functional with friendly (suppose it was day one) salespeople. Denon had a static display, as did the B&W/Marantz/Classe importers - who although being static, did have a nice display of Mark L, Kimber, Classe and the big 800s and 802s amongst others, together with a HUUUUUUUUUGE Panasonic. Pretty much the whole Marantz line-up featured as well. Tucked away was a (the name slipped me now) stall displaying the beautiful Red wine audio, Amphion and Allmare kit. Pity that with all the external noise you could not have a real listen. There were a few others, new technologies speakers I think they called it, as were Quad/Audiosure with a small rather disappointing stand. Playing Quad CDP through 909 to 22L2s.
As for show specials, suppose if you chatted more you could find out, although the Magnaplanar/Plinius stand had a huge pricelist against the wall - and was the stand I kept on going back to.
Oh, and Earthquake was there. WTF.
